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Re:Show HN: P2P Marketplace for renting stuff by rgarcia on Sunday October 21, 2012 @02:19PM (#4680342)
Some honest feedback, FWIW...

What's your plan to get users? A large part of the success from other asset-sharing services is due to the fact that they initially chose a vertical (Airbnb: apartments, Getaround/RelayRides: cars) and made a small number of people in that vertical incredibly happy. Generalizing to "all things" has the advantage of making your target audience/market bigger, but also seriously risks making the average experience worse for a couple of reasons: (1) you're constrained to keeping the interface generic enough for "all things", and (2) by not targeting a vertical, demand/supply becomes much less targeted, meaning you need a large user base for the marketplace to be useful.

Re:Show HN: P2P Marketplace for renting stuff by elbuo8 on Sunday October 21, 2012 @03:53PM (#4680580)
Thanks for the feedback we really appreciated your input, well keep everything you mention on hand to solve those issues.